| Barre | The Sound of Music — April 16th - 18th & 23rd - 25th The Barre Players. Location: Barre Opera House, 6 North Main Street. staff@barreoperahouse.org, 476-8188. | ||
| Cabot | 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. | Bingo 2004 Snacks and dinner available. Proceeds to benefit upgrading the Cabot School gym floor. Location: Cabot School, Dining Hall, 25 Common Road. Dawn Sicard, 563-2289. | |
| Hardwick | 7:00 p.m. | Film: Mystic River — April 22nd - 24th In Clint Eastwood's Mystic River, a murder mystery in South Boston unites three men who have been friends since childhood. Grippingly powerful performances from the entire cast — Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Marcia Gay Harden, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, and Laura Linney — combined with gritty photography, an exceptionally emotional script, and a convincing working-class Boston setting make this film one of Eastwood's most consistent and penetrating works. Though they live in the same houses where they grew up, Jimmy (Penn), Dave (Robbins), and Sean (Bacon) have drifted apart over time. Their distance is due to a disturbing and violent episode that occurred when they were children. Even now, as adults married with kids, they have never managed to overcome their fear and guilt about what happened. Dave and his wife (Harden) still live next door to Jimmy, who is married to a tough-sexy blond (Linney) and has three daughters. When Jimmy's 19-year-old girl is murdered, he turns to Sean, who works as a policeman, and delivers an ultimatum: find the killer fast or I'll go after him myself. Little do they know, the culprit is the last person they'd ever suspect. Rated R. 137 minutes. $5/suggested donation. Northeast Kingdom Arts Council. 472-8800. Location: the Hardwick Town House, 127 Church Street. 533-7422. | |
| Montpelier | 9:00 a.m. | Work hike East Montpelier Trails. Help clear brush, etc. on this lovely, local trail system. Bring clippers. Please register. Contact Ann Burcroff, 229-9677. Green Mountain Club/Montpelier Section. Kathryn Gohl, 223-1097. | |
| St. Johnsbury | 7:00 p.m. | Film: The Company — April 23rd - 29th Robert Altman follows up the stunning success of the Academy Award-winning Gosford Park with The Company, a look at the world of ballet as only Altman could envision it. Throughout his extraordinary career, Altman has surprised, entertained and challenged audiences with vibrant, freewheeling films that stretch the boundaries of the medium. With The Company, this iconic director brings his fluid, masterful camera-work to the world of dance. Altman's vision for the film is an extremely intimate one: we will see the difficult daily work, the intense pressures of performance, the richly textured behaviors of the dancers — whose professional and personal lives grow impossibly close — and of course the sheer beauty of dance: exhilarating, kinetic, and thrillingly observed. 112 minutes. PG-13. Location: Catamount Arts Center, 139 Eastern Avenue. catamountarts@charter.net, 748-2600, (888) 757-5559. | |